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The two sides are close to a deal, but BART management failed to agree to interest arbitration on the remaining issues and the unions would not bring the final contract offer to its membership for a vote.

UPDATE: Late Sunday night, Governor Brown called for a seven-day board inquiry, meaning BART service will continue as normal this week. A three-person panel will issue a written report within that timeframe. The governor strongly urged both sides to “meet quickly and as long as necessary to get this dispute resolved.”

As we told you last week, taxi drivers are planning to strike Tuesday afternoon at San Francisco City Hall. Although it is uncertain exactly how many cabbies will participate, most officials said it will not be a huge burden on customers as the time of…

Now, this probably won’t even register on most people’s radar as there seems to be (usually when you’re drunk at 3am in the Mission) only about a dozen or so cabbies aimlessly driving about totally ignoring you while you desperately wave your arms around standing…

A possible strike of Muni drivers has been (thus far) avoided. Which means commuters only have to worry about their bus coming 20 minutes late rather than at all. Contract negotiations between Muni management and the drivers/mechanics union, TWA Local 250 A, had been stalling,…